Not since Lord Haw—Haw, who made radio broadcasts for the Nazis while they were bombing London,  has there been a British figure quite as despicable as George Galloway. "Oily George" has made a name for himself by serially kissing the anatomy of the bloodiest dictators on the planet. He came to Washington recently and lied his head off to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, denying that he accepted Oil—for—Food money from Saddam. The committee has now referred his case to the Justice Department for possible prosecution, after it discovered $150,000 of Saddam's oil money going to Galloway's wife's bank account in Jordan.

Galloway is now in Damascus, loudly singing the praises of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, who was recently accused  by a UN investigator of ordering the assassination of Lebanese former prime minister Rafic Hariri.

MEMRI provides Oily George's remarks on Syrian government television. In classic Galloway fashion, he began with a passionate kiss aimed at the dictator's backside:

"All dignified people in the world, whether Arabs or Muslims or others with dignity, are very proud of the speech made by President Bashar Al—Assad a few days ago here in Damascus. ...  For me, he is the last Arab ruler, and Syria is the last Arab country. It is the fortress of the remaining dignity of the Arabs, and that's why I'm proud to be here and addressing you this evening."

Then Gallow jeered at SecState Condoleezza Rice, who has just negotiated a new agreement on behalf of the Palestinians with Israel.

"You know, it never ceases to surprise me that Arab governments can allow a foreigner (Condi Rice) to come to their country and sit at their tables with their leaders to insult and attack another Arab country. This is the behavior of slave governments, and the Bahraini regime should have asked Condoleezza to leave when she insulted Syria in their presence, in their capital."

Then he takes after Tony Blair ——— Galloway was expelled from Blair's Labour Party, which otherwise is not noted for high standards of behavior.

"The truth is, Mr. Blair changed his policy towards Syria because President Bush ordered him to. Mr. Blair too is a slave of the slaves."

Then Oily George argues, in classic fashion, that the murderers of Hariri are just the victims of an American plot:

"This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded."

He assures Assad that he has nothing to fear from America. 

"America is losing the war in Iraq and she cannot dream of starting a new war in Syria.
... The public opinion in Britain and America is moving decisively against the policy of Bush and Blair."

He ends with a vision of  a new Caliphate for the Arab world:

"What your lives would be if from the Atlantic to the Gulf we had one Arab union  ——— all this land, 300 million people, all this oil and gas and water, occupied by a people who speak the same language, follow the same religions, listen to the same Um Kulthum... The Arabs would be a superpower in the world if they had this unity, instead of the shameful situation in which the Arabs find themselves today."

Just as back home,

"we are making a European Union which in 20 years will balance the power of the United States of America, inshallah (God willing)."

Galloway may say "God willing" to his Muslim audience, but he is of course a militant atheist, a proud member of the Trotskyite Socialist Workers'
Party, backed by the UK Communist Party. But he has learned the inflammatory rhetoric of Arab demagogues, invoking Allah, referring to his enemies as "slaves," and describing US and Israeli policy in terms of the "rape of two beautiful Arab women, Jerusalem and Baghad." Just to whip up a little more hatred in a part of the world that is already drowning in it.

Galloway may sell his soul to the Devil, but he doesn't come cheap. Saddam paid him handsomely in oil vouchers, laundered through Galloway's fake "charity." Assad possibly is paying the tab for Gorgeous George, as his deluded fans call him. What we wonder, given Galloway's sleazy record, is when he will go to Iran to sing the praises of the murderous Mullahs? They have a lot of money to spend on the likes of Oily George, and now that they have publicly started to refine uranium ore for bombs, they could use the services of a flack like George Galloway.